The Free Music Archive [FMA] has posted a very nice review of our release by Manuele Atzeni:

The Miyazaki Tour E.P. represents some of the best 15 minutes available on the FMA to date. With hip-hop as its backdrop, the production takes on the stutter-step programming of leftfield R&B akin to Timbaland and the Neptunes, which is especially evident on songs like “Crezima” and “NeVe”. “Bonacisi” and “Ouch The Couch” are both packed with a flurry of scratches and cuts over whimsical electronic beats.

As you may know we distribute part of our catalog of free album releases through Bittorrent site Mininova. We have made 30 releases available through their site so far and we continue to add older releases.

Here’s an overview of the most popular WM Recordings releases on Mininova so far:

More grooves, more lyrics and another guest vocalist: welcome to SEXMACHINE, a mini album filled with sounds of legendary synthesizers and dirty guitars.

Willem van Dullemen, a famous blues guitarist/singer from Rotterdam joins Happy Elf’s hitmachine on two tracks. This album features songs about relations, sex and dreams. But don’t take it too seriously: it’s Happy Elf!

Manuele Atzeni a.k.a. Miyazaki is a dj/producer from the underground music scene in Florence, Italy. Born as a hard-techno dj, since 2001 he has been spinning and scratching in parties, clubs and festivals around Italy mixing hip hop, funk and drum ‘n bass.

Manuele Atzeni’s music is heavily hip hop/electro influenced with a strong jazz/funk taste.

Inspired by the increasing practice of musicians sponsored by corporations, these 16 tunes are The Hathaway Family Plot’s latest attempt to make music that is the anti-commodity: sloppy, unmarketable, and sometimes flagrantly difficult to listen to!

We promised you more news about partnerships with free music sites last week. Well, here’s the good news we’re dying to tell you: WM Recordings is now officialy added as a ‘curator’ of the recently opened Free Music Archive:

“The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is being directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

Inspired by Creative Commons and the open source software movement, the FMA provides a legal and technological framework for curators, artists, and listeners to harness the potential of music sharing. Every artist page will have a bio and links to the artists’ home page for users to learn more about the music they discover via the Free Music Archive. We also seek to compensate artists directly. Artist, album and song profiles will contain links to buy the full album from the artist and/or label’s preferred vendor(s). Users can also “tip” an artist if they like what they hear, sending a donation directly to the artists’ PayPal account. Artist profiles include tourdates, encouraging users to step away from the glowing computer screen and see some real live music.”

You can find our contributions here. We’ll add our complete catalog of free albums to the archive in the coming weeks.